LES AVENTURES DE TELEMAQUE, FILS D'ULYSSE; NOUVELLE EDITION, TELEMACHUS GREEK MYTHOLOGY

DUBLIN, LOWER ORMOND-QUAY: CHEZ JOHN CUMMING, 1845 DARK BROWN COVER WITH GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT ON THE SPINE. ORIGINAL OWNER SIGNED AND MADE NOTE APRIL 8, 1856, COLLEGE CARLOW. BOOK HAS WEAR ON THE OUTSIDEWITH SMALL WHITE DOTS ON FRONT. RIGHT CORNERS BUMPED, EDGE BETWEEN SPINE AND FRONT COVER QUITE WORN BUT STILL ATTACHED. EDGES WORN. INSIDE FIRST BLANK PAGE IS A STAMP FOR ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, SIGNATURE AND DATE OF 1853 ON THE TITLE PAGE. B. DU GUE FRENCH LANGUAGE PROFESSOR LISTED ON TITLE PAGE. 1ST PAGE OF STORY HAS SIGNATURE AT TOP- MONASTERY- JUNE 16, 1853. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT, SOME PENCIL WRITING INSIDE BACK COVER. Les aventures de Télémaque (The adventures of Telemachus) is a didactic French novel by Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai and tutor to the seven-year-old Duc de Bourgogne (grandson of Louis XIV and second in line to the throne). It was published anonymously in 1699 and reissued in 1717 by his family. The slender plot fills out a gap in Homer's Odyssey, recounting the educational travels of Telemachus, son of Ulysses, accompanied by his tutor, Mentor, who is revealed at the end of the story to be Minerva, goddess of wisdom, in disguise. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.